15.A　 推断判断题。根据physical effort on the one hand and relaxation on the other — which were the natural way of life of our forefathers.可知，我们祖先的生活方式很健康，是因为他们的生活方式与锻炼和放松密切相关。

　E

Being a good parent is harder now than it has ever been before. In pressurized modern lives, demands to be a fulfilled individual, a good partner and a good worker, take no account of being a good parent. We haven’t left space for the nurturing parents who are expected to provide what children need. As a result, many families in the western world just don’t work.

　　　 Something will have to change. With luck, people in the future will only have children if they really want them. That should mean parenthood is seen as a much more positive promise than it is now, that parents are socially supported, and are admired for doing a good job.

　　　 The problem is that in the last generation or so we’ve come to assume that women should want and be able to everything that by tradition men have done at the same time as pretty well everything that by tradition women have done. And it’s just not possible. Since adopting a male life style is demonstrably only another form of submission(顺从), quite a number of highly educated and economically privileged(优越的)women are now choosing to take career breaks so as to be at home with their children for longer than that poor 18 weeks.

　　　 The most welcoming trend in parenting is that men are participating more and more, even that is not free of conflict, however. Intellectually(理智上), women want men to be equal parents and do their share. But there’s often a contradictory(矛盾的)emotion because children are the last fort of the female power in the family. “I want him to help me but this is my region and being better at it is one of the new things I’ve got as a female.” In truth, although they haven’t had generations of practice, there’s no reason why men can’t raise children as well as women. Men left to cope after bereavement or divorce, as well as some who take on the role of principal career within a partnership, are already doing it.

14.B　 推断判断题。根据you must also master the art of complete mental and physical relaxation等处可知，光是锻炼是不够的，还要注意心理保健。健康包括生理的和心理的(锻炼和心理放松)两个方面。故B项最佳。

13.B　 推断判断题。根据What often happens though is that you do them in such a leisurely way, so slowly... 可知，我们锻炼的时候并不是太积极和投入，故效果不太理想。

12.B　 细节理解题。根据There are some aspects of our unhealthy lives that we cannot avoid. I am thinking of such features of modern city life as pollution, noise, rushed meals and stress. 可知pollution, noise, stress是生活在城市一些不健康的、不太好的方面。

15. Our forefathers were healthy because______.

A. their way of life closely connected with both exercise and relaxation

B. they were careful to get plenty of fresh air

C. they spent most of the time out of doors

　　　 D. their environment was not polluted

[解题导语]本文为说明文，介绍了身心健康的两个方面：积极锻炼和心态放松。

[答案与解析]　

14. To be healthy we must _____.

A. keep fit and active 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. keep fit and learn to relax

C. be active and practise Yoga　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. have a sound mind

13. We don’t get much out of separate sports because we _____.

A. don’t do them very often　

　　　 B. don’t do them actively enough

C. find it hard to get out of our armchairs

　　　 D. don’t find them interesting

12. Pollution, noise and stress are examples of _____.

A. causes of unfitness

　　　 B. bad features of living in towns

C. the things we can completely do away with

　　　 D. unavoidable things in town

11.B　 细节理解题。根据Buses depart from the main railway station and Coshley Square可知答案。

D

Most of us lead unhealthy lives; we spend far too much sitting down. If in addition we are careless about our diets, our bodies soon become loose and fatty and our systems slowmoving. There are some aspects(方面) of our unhealthy lives that we cannot avoid. I am thinking of such features of modern city life as pollution, noise, rushed meals and stress. But keeping fit is a way to reduce the effects of these evils. The usual suggestion to a person who is looking for a way to keep fit is to take up some sport or other. While it is true that every weekend you will find people playing football and hockey in the local park, they are outnumbered a hundred to one by the people who are simply watching them.

　For those who do not particularly enjoy competitive sports — and it is especially difficult to do so if you are not good at them — there are such separate activities as cycling, walking, jogging and swimming. What often happens though is that you do them in such a leisurely way, so slowly, that it is doubtful if you are doing yourself much good, except for the fact that you have at least managed to get up out of your armchair.

　Even after you have found a way for keeping in shape, through sport or gymnastics, you are still only half way to good health, because, according to the experts, you must also master the art of complete mental and physical relaxation(放松). It has to do with deep breathing, emptying your mind of all thoughts, meditation, and so on. Yoga, as practiced in the West, is the most widely known and popular of the systems for achieving the necessary state of relaxation. It seems ironical (讽刺性的), though, that as our lives have improved in a material sense we have found it increasingly necessary to go back to forms of activityphysical effort on the one hand and relaxation on the other — which were the natural way of life of our forefathers.

10.C　 细节理解题。我们知道orange BTB buses是市内公交车，而这类车票是不能在汽车上买的(TICKETS CANNOT BE PURCHASED ON THE BUSES)。 故C项有部分细节与短文有出入。